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[return to "Anthropic acquires Bun"]
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1. mritch+f6[view] [source] 2025-12-02 18:33:37
>>ryanvo+(OP)
> At the time of writing, Bun's monthly downloads grew 25% last month (October, 2025), passing 7.2 million monthly downloads. We had over 4 years of runway to figure out monetization. We didn't have to join Anthropic.

I believe this completely. They didn't have to join, which means they got a solid valuation.

> Instead of putting our users & community through "Bun, the VC-backed startups tries to figure out monetization" – thanks to Anthropic, we can skip that chapter entirely and focus on building the best JavaScript tooling.

I believe this a bit less. It'll be nice to not have some weird monetization shoved into bun, but their focus will likely shift a bit.

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2. serial+Qe[view] [source] 2025-12-02 19:06:17
>>mritch+f6
> I believe this a bit less.

They weren’t acquired and got paid just to build tooling as before and now completely ignoring monetization until the end of times.

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3. velcro+0l[view] [source] 2025-12-02 19:31:07
>>serial+Qe
Maybe they were though. Maybe Anthropic just wanted to bring a key piece of the stack in-house.
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4. somegu+kL2[view] [source] 2025-12-03 14:31:38
>>velcro+0l
This is most likely the reason.
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